Coin collecting and carrying device.



No. 810,656. PATENTED JAN. 23, 1906.

. M. KOHN.

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UNITED STATES MORRIS KOHN', OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 23, 1906.

Application filed January 3, 1905. Serial No. 239,327.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MORRIS KoHN, a citizen of the United States, residing in the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Coin Collecting and Carrying Devices, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to devices for carrying coins from one point to another, and particularly from automatic coin-operated machines to receptacles where coins may be safely kept.

It particularly relates to selective means for carrying the coins from one or from a class of such machines where they are placed to a particular receptacle.

In amusement-places such as are now common in our large cities it is customary to provide a considerable row of coin-operated phonographs, moving picture machines, strength and other testing machines, and in general a variety of so called slot machines, which are automatically operated or made operative by the insertion of a coin. It is very desirable to the proprietors of these amusement-places to know which machine or which classes of machines are most attractive to the public as shown by their relative receipts. My device secures this result by selecting the coins deposited in any one or any class of machines and conveying them to a particular receptacle. At the same time, by reason of its capability for continuous operation, it is adapted to receive the coins from all of the machines at very frequent intervals, which prevents any possibility of the machines being robbed either by some disorderly person or by a mechanic who may be required to occasionally repair the machines.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a transverse section of so much of my device as is necessary to understand its complete operation. Fig. 2, on a reduced scale, is a section through the broken line 2 2, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a section of the carrying device shown in Fig. 1 in a difierent position. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of a tripping device.

I do not find it necessary to illustrate the phonograph, testing-machine, or other device in which the'coins are deposited by the public, nor the receptacles to which they are carried by the carrying portion of the device,

as the first of these are well known and the second may be of any convenient form and of any desired material for the sake of strength or the like.

The device may for convenience be located immediately beneath the row of phonographs or other machines and may advantageously be placed just below the stand or floor on which these are supported. From each phonograph or other machine is led a chute 1, the bottom of which forms a coin-holder for all the coins which pass through the machine. At some point adjacent the foot of the holder is a dumping device operated by toggle mechanism, one member of which I have shown as a platform 11, forming a bottom for the holder and pivoted at 12, as clearly shown in Fig. 2. Pivotally attached to a rearward extension". 13 of the bottom 11 is the other toggle member in the form of a bent lever 14, the lower portion 15 of which extends through an aperture 21 in the base or floor 2, with which the chute 1 is connected. An upwardly-extending arm 16 of the lever 14 is formed with an L shaped slot having members 17 18, which pass freely over a stud 19, shown as secured to a portion of the chute 1. Immediately beneath the base or floor 2 is a trough 3, the side walls 31 of which extend to or adjacent to the lower side of the floor 2. To the inner side of the vertical walls 31 of the trough 3 are secured continuous rails or bars 32, forming a track for the carrier, hereinafter to be described. Within the trough 3 and shown as located in its lower corners are me tallic bars 33, insulated from each other and forming part of an electric circuit connected with a source of electric energy. (Not shown.) In the bottom of the trough 3 are provided a series of apertures 34, adjacent which may be placed abutting wings 35. Each of the apertures 34 is located immediately above and so as to discharge into a coin-receptacle I will now describe one of the cars 4 which form the coin-carriers by which the coins are transported from the coin holders or chutes l to the receptacles in which they are finally deposited. It is understood that there is provided a plurality of these cars 4, which may be formed into a train connected ,to, gether by cords or cables 5 and propelled by a motor, (not shown,) which, if of electric construction, may run upon and be provided with power from the metallic contact-rails 33. It is evident that instead of using an electric motor to pro el the car 4 or a train of such cars any other orm of propelling device may be used, as this forms no part of my in vention. In practice, however, I find it of great advantage to make the trough 3 with its car-supporting track 32 and motor-rails 33 continuous, so that the motors may be inv operation continuously or at such times as desired whenever the phonographs or other machines are on exhibition.

The car 4 is provided with wheels 41, running on the track-bars 32, and, as shown, is provided with two bottom pieces 42, each pivoted at 43 to one of the sides 44 of the car and each having an outwardly-extending balancing and lever portion 45,"forming one member of a toggle, to which is pivoted a bent lever 46, forming the other member of the toggle, having a stud 47 at its lower and inner end and an L-shaped slot having memhere 48 and 49 playing on the stud 401 on the body of the car 4. Guided as to vertical movement by means of studs 402 on one of the car-bodies 4 is a block 403, having laterally-extending wings 404, slotted at 405, the

' slots passing freely over the studs 47 in the lever 46, above described. In the block 403 is an idler-wheel 406, the axis of which is transverse to the line of motion of the car and to the tracks 32. As clearly shown in Fig. 3, the idler-wheel 406 is adapted to engage with a tripping device, shown as a strip 36, having an inclined upper face 37. On the car 4 is a tripping device 407, shown as an upwardly and inwardly extending bracket adapted to engage with the lower portion 15 of the bent lever 14 as the car passes thereunder. In Fig. 3 is indicated the mouth 6 of a coin-receptacle, which, as already stated, may be of any desired form or material.

The operation of my device will be readily understood from an inspection of the drawings. It will be understood that each time one of the phonographs or other slot-machines located above the chute 1 is used a coin will pass down the chute or holder 1 and rest upon the platform 11, which forms its bottom. The weight of these coins will not depress the platform by reason of the engagement of stud 19 in the slot member 18. When a particular car 4, having a tripping device 407 corresponding in lateral and vertical adj ustment with the particular lever portion 15 shown, passes beneath the holder or chute 1, the tripper 407 will contact with the lever portion 15 and raise the same. This will free the stud 19 from the member 18 of the L-shaped slot and will tend to pass the slot member 17 on the stud 19, so as to depress the platform 11 and permit the coins to drop into the car 4. The depression of the platform 11 will of course be assisted by the weight of the coins resting thereon, so that these will bepromptly delivered into the car 4. When the car 4 reaches a point immediately over the particular aperture 34 and coin-receptacle 6, in which it is intended to discharge its load of coins, the idler 406 strikes against and rides upon the inclined face 37 of the tripping-plate 36. This acts to raise the block 403 and by means-of the sliding engagement of the studs 47 in the slots 405 to move the levers 46, so as to disengage the slot members 49 therein from the studs 401, and to some extent, as before, to move the slot portions 48 along these studs. This movement, together with the weight of the coins resting on the bottom pieces 42 of the car 4, will act to discharge the coins between the wings 35 and through the opening 34 into the coin-receptacle 6. It is of course understood that the lower portions 15 of different levers 14, by the movement of which the coins are discharged from different holders or chutes 1, may extend downward through the aperture 21 to a greater or less distance. It is also true that the position of these may be varied laterally, so that a particular car 4, having a trip-lever 407 properly located both laterally and vertically, acts selectively to receive the coins from one of the holders 1 or from a number of such holders having similarly-disposed parts 15 and which may preferably be connected with phonographs or other slot-machines of a particular class. In this same way the lateral and vertical positions of the idler-wheels 406 correspond to trip-plates 36 of diiferent heights and diflerently-disposed laterally, so that a particular coin-receptacle 6, with its trip 36 adjacent thereto, acts selectively to cause the discharge thereinto of the coins from a particular car 4 or, if necessary, although this will seldom be the case, from a plurality of similar cars.

It is understood that my invention may be varied within wide limits, it not being necessary that the particular tripping device should be of the form shown, that the cars or carriers of which the cars are a type should be wheel-vehicles running upon a track, or that they should be propelled or drawn by any particular mechanism or device.

Broadly considered, my invention includes selective means for conveying from one or a class of coin-holders the coins therein to a particular coin-receptacle. It also includes means on said carrier for selectively engaging with the coin-discharging means of a particular holder or holders, so that these may be collected by said carrier, and selective means adjacent to and in connection with a coin-receptacle for discharging into said receptacle coins from a particular car, by which term I include any form of carrier.

ed to collecting and carrying coins, it is obvious that it may be adapted, without departing from the spirit of the invention, for carrying mail-matter or any other parcels of convenient size and that such a use of the device would be within the meaning of the claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. A coin-collecting device comprising a coinchute, coin-retaining means at the foot of said chute, a dump-car traveling beneath said chute, a coin-receptacle in the line of travel of said car, means on said car for first unlocking and then tripping said coin-retaining means, and means for dumping coins carried by said car into said receptacle.

2. A coin-collecting device, comprising a coin-chute, coin-retaining means at the foot of said chute, a car having normally locked dumping means traveling beneath said chute, a coin-receptacle in the line of travel of said car, means on said car for tripping said coinretaining means, and means for first unlocking and then tripping said dumping means.

3. A coin collecting and distributing device comprising a coin-holder, toggle-acting levers connected to operate the holder, a car below saidcoin-holder having two bottom doors, a member on said car cooperating with one of the members of the toggle on the said coin-holder, each bottom door of said car be ing pivoted at its side and made to cover half the bottom of the car, a side extension to each bottom door, toggle-acting means con nected to operate the doors by means'of said side extension, and a cam below said car made to cooperate with the toggle-acting means on the car.

4. A coin-collecting device comprising a coin-holder, toggle-acting levers connected to operate the holder, a car below said coinholder, and a member on said car cooperating with one of the members of the said toggle, whereby the coin-holder is tripped as the car passes under the coin-holder.

5. A coin collecting and distributing device comprising a car having two bottom doors, each bottom door pivoted at its side and made to cover half the bottom of the car, a side extension to each bottom door, toggleacting means connected to control the doors by means of said side extension, and a cam below said car made to cooperate with the toggle-acting means, whereby the doors are tripped as the car passes over the cam.

6. A coin-collecting device comprising a coin-holder, toggle acting levers connected to operate the holder, means for locking said holder in its normal position, a car below said coin-holder, and a member on said car coop crating with one of the members of the said toggle, whereby the coin-holder is unlocked and tripped as the car passes under the coin holder.

7. A coin collecting and distributing debent lever provided with a slot and pivotally attached to the rearward extension of the holder, a pin above said holder engaging said slot, a car below said coin-holder, and a cam on said car cooperating with the bottom of the bent lever, thereby operating the coinholder.

9. A coin-collecting device comprising a coin-holder, adapted to swing on a pivot, a

bent lever provided with an angular slot and pivotally attached to the rearward extension of the holder, a pin above said holder engaging said angular slot, a car below said coinholder, and a cam on said car cooperating with the bottom of the bent lever, thereby operating the coin-holder.

10. A coin collecting and distributing device comprising a car, a pointed bottom to said car consisting of two bottom plates, each bottom plate pivoted at its side and made to cover half the bottom of the car, a side extension to each bottom plate, bent levers each provided with an angular slot and pivotally attached to the ends of said side extensions, pins on said car above said bottom plates engaging the angular slots in the bent levers, a front plate provided with one vertical and two horizontal slots, means on said car engaging the vertical slot for holding said front plate, whereby a certain vertical movement is permitted, a pin on each of the said bent levers engaging the horizontal slots of the said front plate, a Wheel in said vertical slot, and a cam below said car made to cooperate with the said wheel on the said front plate to force the said front plate up, thereby operating the bottom plates.

11. A coin collecting and distributing device comprising a car, a bottom to said car composed of two bottom plates, each bottom plate pivoted at its side and made to cover half the bottom of the car, a sideward exten sion to each bottom plate, bent levers each provided with a slot and pivotally attached to the ends of said side extensions, pins on said car above said bottom plates engaging the slots in the bent levers, a front plate provided with one vertical and two horizontal slots, means on said car engaging the vertical slot for holding said front plate, whereby a ITO certain Vertical movement is permitted, a In testimony whereof I have signed this pin on each of the said bent levers en aging specification in the presence of two subscrib- I0 thle hlorizontgl slots of tllie said1 front p atila, a ing Witnesses.

W ee in sai Vertica s 0t, an a cam be OW said car made to cooperate with the said MORRIS KOHN' Wheel on the said front plate to force the said Witnesses:

front plate up, thereby operating the bottom Z. O. POLLITZER,

plates. PAUL BAER. 

